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Re: Using DNS response fields in an alert msg


From: "Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler () cisco com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 14:49:01 +0000

We have additional functionality being added to OpenAppId in 2.9.8 in DNS.  I don't think it will answer your entire 
use case here though. 

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Joel Esler 
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On Jan 7, 2015, at 8:23 AM, David Longenecker <david () 7longeneckers com> wrote:

Hi snort folks, I'm looking for a bit of education. Forgive me if this is not the right forum for questions like this.

Over the holiday break, I spent some time with snort and opendns, inspecting DNS responses to detect potential 
malicious activity on the local network. The idea was, opendns does a good job of *blocking* malicious content by 
responding with a warning landing page instead of the actual address; I can use that to *alert* when a blocked page 
is requested. I look for several known landing pages in the dns answer record, and trigger an alert.

It works pretty well, with one shortcoming: the alerts identify the offending device, but not the name request. I 
have to go back to the packet capture afterward to determine the requested domain. Does anyone on this list have an 
example of snort parsing a dns response into its component name and address fields, and using these fields in the 
alert message?

Project description: http://dnlongen.blogspot.com/snort-dns
Just the rules: https://github.com/dnlongen/snort-dns


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